[thelist] WYSIWYG x-browser design - is it a reality?

[spinhead]

Well, as usual, I left out half the description of the issue (and STILL got
lots of meaningful feedback; evolt = Karnak)

The marketing folks won't just be tweaking a bit of text here and there -
they're planning on building a databased online ordering system and
reconfiguring the entire site to work with it. Our VP of Marketing seems to
know what Ultradev is (not saying he knows how to use it) but I'm still
hoping they'll take it and keep it, rather than taking it, breaking it, and
asking me to make it work.

Minor tangent: he seemed astonished that I do virtually all my work by hand
with a text editor (TextPad, actually.) He's under the impression the 'real
professionals' don't do anything by hand, or at least, not much. Comments?

spinhead


----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt" <mspiegler at lightbulbpress.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 6:37 AM
Subject: Re: [thelist] WYSIWYG x-browser design - is it a reality?


> One of the nice things about Dreamweaver is that you can set up blocks of
text
> as library items, and then have the non-coders edit the library items
directly.
> It basically means that they won't even have to touch the majority of the
code
> and can just type in their inspirational marketing messages without fear.
And
> if they screw up something, it will be localized to the Library item and
> there's much less risk of their deleting a </TABLE> tag and blowing the
whole
> page or something. It will take a little more time to setup initially but
will
> be worth it.
>
> Matt
>
> spinhead wrote:
>
> > An axe just fell. Not 'THE' axe, but an axe nonetheless. The VP of
Marketing
> > just popped by to let me know that we need to get him connected to the
web
> > server so he and his team can take over maintenance via Dreamweaver.
> >
> > That's fine with me, as long as I'm not expected to make it work when it
> > doesn't. I mentioned that a certain amount of hand-tweaking was
inevitable,
> > and he said that at his last company (he was VPM there as well) he built
an
> > entire site using FrontPage and had no problems with cross browser
> > implementation. I think he's clueless about web design, but maybe it's
me.
> >
> > On a scale of your choosing, how close can Dreamweaver come to creating
true
> > x-browser code in the hands of a non-technical person?
> >
> > spinhead
> >